Covid-19, GCSEs and Home Education
Government and Ofqual exploring options for awarding grades to home educated students What’s been said? How society has changed in the last week! Recently we reported on a chain of cloned local …
Tag: Anne Longfield
Standing Up to Anne Longfield’s Rhetoric
Woman’s Hour discussion demonstrates that if home educators are given the opportunity, they can answer their critics! What’s been said? We recently wrote about how a Northamptonshire Serious Case Review about an …
Ofsted Annual Report 2018-19
Home education features in the context of off-rolling and unregistered schools What’s been said? 21 January saw the publication of Ofsted’s Annual Report for the academic year 2018-19. The opening letter to …
Essex Councillors Fear Home Educated Children are Joining Gangs
Guilt by rumoured association is on the increase, thanks to Longfield and Spielman What’s been said? The misleading headline “Essex parents who home school now face a £1,000 fine if they mess …
LGA Presses for Monitoring of EHE Children
What’s been said? On 16 July the Local Government Association [LGA] website featured an article entitled, “Government urged to toughen up home education plans.” The timing and purpose of this item is …
Edward Timpson on Off-rolling and Home Education
What’s been said? Edward Timpson, whose report on school exclusions was published in May, appeared before the Education Committee on 2 July. As in recent accountability hearings with Anne Longfield and Damian …